Learning Idioms: Go Dutch

Meaning: Spliting the payment of the account. Normally done at a restaurant or a bar. In other words, paying for your own bill. Go Dutch: is a contraction of the phrase: ” In the Dutch way ”. Also: Dutch Treat.

Example: I don’t want you to pay for my lunch, let’s go Dutch.

There are many ideas regarding how the phrase originated. It is said to have emerged as part of the derogatory vocabulary used during the rivalry of England and Holland in the seventeenth century. Among many other phrases are: Dutch Courage: Which meant that the Dutch needed to drink alcohol before a battle. Dutch Defense: which meant to retract or abandon the battle.

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